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Eastover voters will decide on how neighborhood improvement fee is collected

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Voters in Eastover will choose Saturday (Nov. 16) whether to require that a new, annual $1,652 fee be collected from every parcel in that tony eastern New Orleans neighborhood - including condominiums. The money would be earmarked to finance the "Eastover Neighborhood Improvement and Security District" and the fee would continue in perpetuity.

Voters in Eastover will choose Saturday (Nov. 16) whether to require that an annual $1,652 fee be collected on their tax bills from every parcel in that tony eastern New Orleans neighborhood -- including condominiums. The money would be earmarked to finance the "Eastover Neighborhood Improvement and Security District" and the fee would continue in perpetuity.

The board of directors for the Eastover Property Owners Association would control the proposed fund. The affected neighborhoods are bordered by Dwyer Road to the South, the Interstate-10 service road to the north and the Jahncke Canal to the west.

If adjacent lots are combined into a single-family residence, the proposal would consider such property a single lot, but the fee associated with it would be higher - 40 percent for a new lot formed from two properties, and 60 percent for a lot formed from three or more.

The city can opt to keep 1 percent of the collections.

Polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m.

Note: An earlier version of this story referred to the fee as "new." The Eastover Property Owners Association said the fee has always been in place and that ballot issue would only change the way it is collected.